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to my primary 3 teacher at school, mic drop

Well it turns out i have the scales correct. The south american vws aren't the same size as the euro the ones i see regularly. These use more audi style mechanics so the proportions of the euro cars is defferent. I'd been trying them against a revell mk1 golf as i know how they would compare if it was earo cars. I'm away to slap myself with a cold salmon now, lol

would it be some sort of torsion bar suspension

is that an essential oil?

There's not really much difference imo. If its thin it tends to be brittle so some things need more care taken, but its easy to knock the edges down with normal model tools. The g3 pick up i've been working with has thin sides so it has broken on me a few times so its been reinforced with epoxy and styrene behind the breaks. If you can build a resin model you can easily work with 3d printed resins. You must wear a mask when sanding it though but thats just common sense really

Heres last nights prints. I've included the puma gtb with the vws as the previous puma was vw based while this one is chevy opala based. It originaly came with a straight 6 puma gte. these were built on the brasilia vw floorpans. skoda 110. rear engined eastern european car and incidentaly the first rear engined car I remember seeing. It was outside a local shop and i was facinated to see these to nutty old women putting their shopping where i knew the engines were. In my defence i was under 5 years old and my dad was a ford guy (had a mk2 savage cortina) so i'd never seen anything rear engined except my uncles camper. I'll probably build this on a beetle chassis

I'd try the hot water trick suggested above since you've really nothing to lose. you might be lucky and the paints is thick enough to peel off.

2020 vision does not mean you saw your way through a year no matter what a facebook post i saw said

While I'm a vw fan my eye sometimes get caught by other things too. So here are a couple of trucks I've printed and 32 roadster that is intended to be a bentley style build if i can find some decent modern size wires for it. first is a ford f650. As I'm never satisfied I've printed out a raptor grille and a few wheel options. I have some left over parts from a meng f350 and they seem to be a little larger scaled. There is about a 2/3mm height difference between the meng sides and this cab but once i fit the dually fenders from this kit to the meng sides it will be mostly hidden. ford f350. This is an amalgamation of parts from various different designers. The engine is from texas3dcustoms and i've had it in the stash for a while. this is holdens efijy concept car from a few years back. I broke the side but its an easy repair so no need to print another 32 roadster. This is a file by digital surface for a 32 roadster kit. I'm not using his engine and have resized the length by 7mm. the hood has been stretched 5mm and the grille 3mm. This is all because of twin blown flathead with the blowers mounted in front of the engine. This made me think a bentley inspired build ala hooolywood hotrods might be cool so I strtched it in lychee. still need to find suitable wire wheels for this one

As you all know by now I'm a big vw fanboy, and i also have a fondness for the more unusual cars which has led to me printing out a load of south american vws. I'm still trying to get the passat, parati and saveiro g1 to print at 1/24 but everything elde is 1/24 exceprt the 2020 audi rs5 which is scaled to fit a drag chassis so i can build daddy daves new no prep car. I have everything to build it and printed 2 bodies so i can cut the front off to show the engine. First up is group of files from various places to build a liberty walk audi a5. I have an interior file for this too but it needs a lot of work to print well so this build is a while away. next is a blackboxstl beach buggy. as I'm never satisfied I've also printed out the drag parts to fit the engine and a set of small tyres this one is a south american vw but versions of it were available in europe. Isn't it ugly? should look sweet slammed on some suitable period style rims this is a facelift mk2 vw passat. it needs rescaled as its too big just now. this one has an interior also this will become daddy dave's new no prep car. All the chassis and other parts except the body are files from mcs or mattys custom scale on cults. Nice files but they feel underscaled for 1/24 this is a saveiro g1 summer. its got an interior and underhood detail. also needs rescaled vw sp2. this is a rescaled slotcar body. there are other sp2 files but they all get the rear wheel arches completely wrong vw bora. this broke when i was taking it off the supports. i'll print another though. I tried another bora file but it printed like paper and was a waste of 18 hours printing vw parati. I need to rescale this one too. its another with interior and underhood detail This one i got the scale right on. I've been doing a little work on it. it started a slotcar and was very blocky once printed. I spent a load of time smoothing the body and then fitted a mk1 golf arches but the body keeps breaking on me. Not a very good file but i have another to try now we get to the one I'm working on currently. Its a vw saveiro g6. As you can see the body has some texture issues but the resin is easy to work with so its not really a problem. I've opened the hood and have rescaled a mk2 golf engine bay to suit. I'm using a vw 1.8t engine but since the file is one piece I'll use 2 and cut them apart to make detailing easier. The seats I'm using are from blackboxstl and handily have the audi rs pattern. For glass since this has a convex profile I'm going to attempt to cut it from just below the shoulder on a fizzy juice bottle. I'm hoping it will keep the curve as i flatten it out. For the front suspension I'll be using some printed parts from another blackbox bodykit.

Now the next question is how many of you's answers are now out of date? I know i've added around 15 kits and 16 printed kits just this month and i'm printing every day so thats 3 or 4 more bodies every day

You might be stuck with having to reo the chrome. Most of the stuff we use to strip paint will also strip chrome parts. Do you know what type of paint is on it? eg; acrylic or enamel etc..

pianee is often one of the side effects of excessive alcohol consumption

Ah the smell of spring, much as the smell aint great, its always a sign that summer is on the way. Great job on the dio

Isn't vlad looking pale tonight were count dracula's doctors last words

If your not going to be using it in vac former too often you could use cheap car body filler and use it to make a buck for forming from. if you cover the back side of your master with cling film (i think you guys call it saran wrap) you can build a small box around your master then pack the box with filler for a buck to form from. It should work for a few tries, possibly more tries if you made it bigger so you can trim back the window and being made from body filler you can remedy any flaws easily. Even the glassfibre filler would work but its more likelly to have bubbles

beauty is in the eye of the bee holder just proves how odd english is

thats looking good, i still need to mask the window surrounds for the black, and give the rear lights some clear red. I might see if the liberty walk kit fits it too but just to look

I wrote my house number on my outdoor bin about 4 months ago. Its exposed to wind, rain, salt, snow and sun in the area the bin sits. Its still there but just a dull silver now. alternatively i did the chassis on an el camno about 4 or 5 years ago just after the pens became available and it looks ok. i have noticed the pen strokes have started to show where the pen was used (like darker shadows in the chrome) but where i used a brush its still good. I'll pull it out of the case in the morning and get some pics in sunlight so they can be compared to the first built pics. I might have done the engine chrome too

If any of you know a janitor from any large public building that has linoleum floors you could get the stuff they use in the floor polisher machines. It goes on with a satin finish but the more you rub it, the shinier it gets. I had a near limitless supply when i cleaned airports. It comes in large drums (25 litre drums is what i had) and generally doesn't have a prominent brand name, just a row of letters and numbers. Its self levelling too

stick a pin from a shirt collar in the needle when your not using it, it will mostly keep the needle clear and if it does block just flip the needle and use the same pin to clear it, or just put a bit of wire in the needle. if the wires longer than the needle it wont block as it will clear when you remove the wire. I prefer the humbrol glue myself, but the revell is a close second but it sometimes struggles to bond some black styrene while the humbrol works but is a little thicker

I like the kit. I got the slammed version and was pleasantly surprised to find it already had a twin turbo Ls so now i might actually build something box stock for a change

I think their system might be fully automatic. It may be that its out of stock but more is on the way so they kept the order open. I must have got about 20 emails while mine was in transit

I'm probably thinking of the vauxhall then, its the uk version of the opels and most likelly pretty common